THE IMPO
AND FEMALE STUDENTS AT SMP NEGERI 1
Submitted to the Eng
in Par
ENGLISH APPLIED LINGUISTICS STUDY PROGRAM
STATE UNIVERSITY OF MEDAN
IMPOLITENESS STRATEGIES OF MALE
TANJUNGBALAI ASAHAN

Fahmi, Fuziernisa
(2017)
THE IMPO
AND FEMALE STUDENTS AT SMP NEGERI 1
Submitted to the Eng
in Par
ENGLISH APPLIED LINGUISTICS STUDY PROGRAM
STATE UNIVERSITY OF MEDAN
IMPOLITENESS STRATEGIES OF MALE
TANJUNGBALAI ASAHAN.
Masters thesis, UNIMED.

Abstract

This study deals with the impoliteness strategies of male and female studets. The
objectives of the study were to find out: (1) the types of impoliteness strategies
which uttered by male and female students at school interaction. (2) the responses
of impoliteness strategies which uttered by male and female students and (3) the
reason of using impoliteness which uttered by male and female students at school
interaction. The study was descriptive qualitative. The subjects of the study were
the four male and four female students in class VIII-3 at SMP Negeri 1
Tanjungbalai Asahan which had been choosen randomly. The data of the study
were the students’ impolite utterances from the conversation at school. The
instrument of ths study was a recording. The data were indentified, analyzed, and
categorized based on Miles Huberman and Saldana’s theory (2014). The findings
of the study show that: (1) there were five types of impoliteness strategies used by
male and female students, namely 1) bald on record impoliteness, positive
impoliteness, negative impoliteness, sarcasm or mock impoliteness, and withhold
politeness. Both of male and female students most dominantly used positive
impoliteness. (2) there were six responses of impoliteness used by male students,
namely no response, accepting responses, deffensive response, offensive response,
ignoring response, and repeating response. No respon was dominantly used by
male student. In other hand, there are five responses of impoliteness used by
female students, namley no response, accepting responses, deffensive response,
offensive response, ignoring response.Offensive respon was dominantly used by
female students.(3) the reasons why the students used language impoliteness.
They used language impoliteness because they wanted (a) to mock others (b) to
vent negative feeling, (c) to show power, (d) to clarify something, (e) to show
disagreement, and from the student’s perspective, the male students used language
impoliteness to the their friend because they wanted to show their power as male.
However, female students uttered impolite utterances because they could convey
their anger and their negative feeling to the target frankly. Based on the findings,
it can be concluded that the students used language impoliteness to their friends
intently to cause disharmony between them. Some suggestions are directed to
those who are interested in understanding language impoliteness as found in the
practice.